So there it is. In a massive, humiliating and abrupt reverse, the Scottish Greens have announced that they’ll support the Scottish Government – still led for the foreseeable future by Humza Yousaf – in this week’s confidence motion.
Shockingly enough, the debate about the Greens’ principles, intellectual consistency and integrity was an extremely brief one. Faced with the loss of their relevance and influence, they crumbled like month-old carrot cake and rushed their cards onto the table before the SNP had time to do any thinking.
Any hope Kate Forbes might have had of leading the SNP just evaporated, and so did any hope of grown-up government between now and 2026. The SNP will now spend the next two years as pathetic, grovelling puppets, doing whatever the Greens want as long as the paycheques and pension contributions keep rolling in.
It’s a tragic demise for a party that just a couple of years ago still crushed all before it in Scottish politics. But that’s showbiz, folks.
We unreservedly applaud the swiftness with which the office of the Official Report of the Scottish Parliament have delivered this answer, something which other bodies in Scotland could learn from.
Thanks to the dedication of our legal team in working over the Easter holiday, Wings has unexpectedly received the formal Opinion of legal counsel (hereafter called “the Opinion”, capitalised to avoid confusion with the ordinary use of the word in the article) with regard to the standing of the site in the light of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which comes into force tomorrow.
We publish the Opinion below, partly to assist those worried about the Act’s impact on them but unable to afford their own legal advice.
But we also do so to place Police Scotland on notice that anything published by Wings Over Scotland is done in the light of the greatest possible care having been taken to ensure compliance with the law, and that in such a context any future attempt/s to improperly interfere with our rights of free expression under Article 10 of the European Convention On Human Rights (ECHR) will be viewed with regard to pursuing the maximum available recourse for wrongful restriction of our lawful activities.
We have both funds and the will to pursue such action.
The video below, which we just found today, is taken from a promo by the American news channel CNN in 2017. It’s deeply ironic now, because CNN has been thoroughly captured by gender ideology. But it’s the reason Wings Over Scotland won’t change what or how we write, even if it means we have to shut our doors.
The truth is everything. Non-negotiable. No matter what. It’s as simple as that.
He’s the cuddly, lovable character all of Scotland’s talking about, but what do we really know about the Hate Monster? Where did he come from? What’s his backstory? Well, the diligent research team at Wings have been hard at work, and we’re thrilled to bring you this rare archive footage of not one but BOTH of his parents.
Both were in the arts. Here’s his mum, Ruda (originally from Eastern Europe, escaping to the West before the Iron Curtain came down) starring in a 1952 Bugs Bunny short:
And this is his dad, in one of several collaborations with the Scooby Doo team in 1976 under his former wrestling persona of The 10,000-Volt Ghost:
Our boy was born for the stage. No wonder he’s made such an impact.
Everyone’s having a lot of fun with the farcical Hate Crime Act that will finally come into operation in Scotland in just a couple of weeks’ time, fittingly on April Fools’ Day.
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Iain More on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Meanwhile ASDA and Tescopoly are still selling Yankee NAZI Booze.” Jan 8, 08:17
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Guardian Online is reporting Labour analysis of the effects of lifting the 2 child benefit cap. If the cap was…” Jan 8, 07:57
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: ““the only domination from which one never recovers. I mean from which one never recovers unscarred” Aye, Alf, it’s impossible…” Jan 8, 07:28
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “@twathater Every gardener knows what to do if you have a precious, little sapling struggling to grow because it is…” Jan 8, 07:15
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Daves, Dave. I’d call them Daves and I’d describe them as Daves. As a True Sovereign Scot, the ladies, as…” Jan 8, 06:50
twathater on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Lochy at last, someone else asking the naysayers and yoonionist Scotland haters who they would vote for in the 2026…” Jan 8, 03:47
Young Lochinvar on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “BB, HMcH and A; Well thank you for your responses. Several vary slightly, but the bottom line appears that we…” Jan 8, 01:38
Cynicus on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “100%Yes says: 7 January, 2026 at 1:33 pm “Cynicus, How can Swinney ask for a section 30 order after the…” Jan 8, 00:32
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “With the one aim to liberate Scotland via legalities I may add,” Jan 8, 00:24
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Sarah, It does need calling out, But the whole darn SCAM needs calling out and exposed for what it is…” Jan 8, 00:17
James Cheyne on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “The biggest offence is calling it Scotland parliament. It is anything but a fully functioning parliament of Scotland with all…” Jan 8, 00:09
sarah on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Just because a system is run with a minority vote having a majority of seats doesn’t make it right, nor…” Jan 7, 23:24
sarah on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “@ J Robertson: well done for writing to your MSP and to the Standards Committee. If no-one tells them, they…” Jan 7, 23:03
Neil Mackenzie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “A Parliament majority is the only majority that matters and it doesn’t matter whether it is won on 30% of…” Jan 7, 22:41
DaveL on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “I see Hatey’s still continuing with nazi terminology to describe and dehumanise a multitude of ethnic groups within a sovereign…” Jan 7, 22:40
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “When you hear, it up to Greenland and Denmark surely its up to the Inuit to decide the colonial masters…” Jan 7, 22:16
Alf Baird on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Scots should know how Venezuelan’s feel about losing control of their oil resource. For over 30 years Anglo-American oil corporations…” Jan 7, 22:07
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Holyrood was the stepping stone to Independence. Now its the vehicle which the SNP uses to stop Independence, with the…” Jan 7, 21:35
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Humans have five primary senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. I have no idea why the wider movement doesn’t…” Jan 7, 21:30
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Scots have got very short memory’s. At the last Westminster election, on the night of the vote, Angus Robertson made…” Jan 7, 20:46
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Orcland is hoaching with oil. They don’t need to import it from Venezuela (unless the Ukie sabotage/destruction campaign has been…” Jan 7, 20:45
agentx on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “It’s amazing how long it has taken for people on here to recognise how useless and crap Holyrood and the…” Jan 7, 20:37
Hatey McHateface on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Thank the Guid Lord ye’re OK, Northy. Those reports that you were last seen, erse painted blue, clad in kilt…” Jan 7, 20:34
100%Yes on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Without a doubt she the cause of everything! Trying saying that to the individuals who read the national you’ll be…” Jan 7, 20:33
Duncan Strachan on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Good stuff Northcode. Best Post of the day. We need to get lives. And that’s the great success of the…” Jan 7, 20:28
Rev. Stuart Campbell on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Aawwww, sadly that group seems to be private.” Jan 7, 20:25
Duncan Strachan on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Good stuff Northcode. Best Post of the day. We need to get lives. And that’s the great success of the…” Jan 7, 20:25
Willie on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “Ah who cares about our pretend wee parliament I read this evening that the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force…” Jan 7, 19:57
Aidan on Grandpa John’s Nightmare: “That’s exactly right Hatey – the route to independence is much more difficult with a moribund SNP sucking in the…” Jan 7, 19:41